Nigeria Wins First 2012 London Olympics Medal

Story by Osaremen Ehi James/Nigeriafilms.com

Last Updated:
Sunday, August 5, 2012

Nigeria won her first medal at the 2012 Olympics holding in London nine days after the event started.

The most populous black nation in the world was in high hopes as at yesterday after Blessing Okhagbare came first at the heats to qualify for finals of the 100 meters race, but came last, dashing the country's hope of being at the medals table.

This afternoon, Maryam Usman registered Nigeria's name on the medals table. She won a bronze from weightlifting. Team Nigeria's performance at the Games has been woeful.

why do u have to say she look lik someome that eat pounded yam . are u finer than her , bad mouth u are s****d for that statement .if u dont have a better comment then shut the hell up.NONSENCE. CONGRAT MY DEAR U ARE A HERO.

Naija is always Naija. Other countries started preparing 4years before the Olympics but Nigerian started 2 months before the games. I watched the during 100metres race by the men on saturday n I was ashamed. The first man that ran came 6th, the second man came 5th, the third man came 6th, the forth man came 7th woeful performances. Anyway, this one tried. Good for the team.

Nigeria are a country that can easyly break some one and its citizen heart fast,,,to believe in nigeria means ur heart must be broke easy,dont risk ur heart,,and blame no body,,and take nigeria any how u see it,,,

This girl could have won bronze but her GENIUS coaches decided she should do more than she is capable of and ended up with nothing. I mean she had bronze in the bag but they wrecked it for her with their unrealistic goals!! Just so disappointed.

hahahaha. . .oh oh oh peak milk advert! I see. . Probably she would have done better.nigerians and their meaningless advert! Smh!It seems cowbell milk is now what they drink, since they are now the official milk, probably we wldn't be having any medal then.

TBH I' M SO BORED of the Olympics!!! i live 35 mins away from the stadium...broadcast and live coverage has taken over my Telly kmt..Is extra hard to get around or drive anywhere. East LND is way over crowded now more then ever kmt. I can't wait for it to be OVER!!!!

At least Nottingham Carnival is few days away. Something to look forward to!!

Nigerians is a heavy disgrace;. which one are we talking about, because Naija is always Naija. Other countries started preparing 4years before the Olympics but Nigerian started 2 months before the games. I watched the during 100metres race by the men on saturday n I was ashamed. The first man that ran came 6th, the second man came 5th, the third man came 6th, the forth man came 7th woeful performances. Anyway, this one tried. Good for the team.

If not because of political things in nigeria. We would have win a lot of things in olympic mean while the reach peaple think that there children will do every thin in nigeria . Let them go ahead and win gold in olympic now since the think no body will be reach. Sports in nigeria is a politics. Because am a very good player in football but i have no sponsors. i play well in my village since every body no me as a good defender in football but no one can help me. But i no one day god will help me?

I could have sworn i saw her win bronze my self with my own eyes on sunday behing zhu llulu of china and the beautiful russian Katarina. But I see no such report in the overall tables. What is going on?

It is sad to see that our pple cant support the athletes. . .if we had good facilities here, i know they will rep. us well . . . instead of pushing blames, we should encourage them . . .atleast dey made it to the olympics. .to me they are champions. . .

Sad there is not one of these high profile Nigerian Olympians who live and train in Nigeria. They are all in universities abroad and have access to the same facilities that those other medalists have. Check out Blessing Okagbare. Under the full tuition of her doting fatherly pair of Uduaghan and solomon Ogba. Spoilt by the large deep pocket of First Bank. Of course we have some dregs who could not make their country of choice list like the Canoeist (whatshisname?) and Oke? They are much more british than Ennis. What is wrong then? Beats me Sad

Some people are calling. Saying she eats Pounded yam. Some people are saying where Jonathan come from like is Jonathan that is in the games. U people don't know what it takes to win a medal in a world game like this then go google and make ur research. No bi beans!

Yes warri no dey carry last, but warri can only win a medal when ARMED ROBBERY and SPEAKING PIGEON-ENGLISH becomes part of the olympic sports, i so sure Warri people will win DIAMOND medals in these 2 yet-to-be sports. Everytime "WARRI NO DEY CARRY LAST" wats so special about these noisy empty headed warri people ?

We,as Nigerians are d cause of our failures.
Everybody representing us is a reflection of we that live in d nation.
Are those athletes from other countries?Certainly not!
If we hav corrupt leaders,it show dat we are corrupt.
As a person,if u prepare 4 d same olympics,wont you put on a non-challant attitude.Can u stand 2 defend ur nation?
Check urself
Watch urself
Balance urself
Be sure u can do better and dont criticize.
Olympics is a game of champion and not luck.so,d president is not d cause of ur failure.
If u continue to blame your errors on other,then,u can neva discover ur mistakes and learn 4rm them

nigeria is a great country bt it will be gud if we jointly come together with sincere mind nd the fear of our creator shun and fight corruption and go to the grassroot,pick those who hv talents but are abandon all bcos they hv no connection if this is done we will knw hw great nigeria is.God bless Nigeria.

I'm so proud of this lady, at least she wiped away part of the shame that we are experiencing by not being on the medal list. Thanks a lot gurl, i love you. To all you people here abusing and calling her bad names, you guys can go kiss the nearest NEPA transformers !!

I'm so proud of this lady, at least she wiped away part of the shame that we are experiencing by not being on the medal list. Thanks a lot gurl, i love you. To all you people here abusing and calling her bad names, you guys can go kiss the nearest NEPA transformers !!

Until we tell ourself the truth we will continue to suffer like this. The truth is this nigeria is soo big to be one nation with too many tribes in it. Let the world help to devid it into pieces so we will beging to win things for our dear countrys cause nigeria is no longer a country.

I love them all they all try, they try their best, not everybody will c it d way i c it somtin is rong wit my country entirely all we need is prayers very soon we will overcome dis time we will shine again. Kudos to all d athletes

Nigeria only participated and came back with zero medal in this recent concluded olympic 2012. Nigeria, we hail thee!!. Please, the journalists on this site should endeavour to disseminate the correct news/information. I am beginning to doubt the authencity of this site.

It sounds like the same story mantiilts dissatisfied because they do not have jobs so they blow up the means of production and money so no one has jobs? What a ridiculous way to protest. Other countries like India have no oil but produce educated people as a resource and are doing better than Nigeria with all its resources.

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